Fixing the date in your footer

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In case you go through your websites every year to update the date… this humor website made me laugh, because it almost feels like someone could actually do it:

https://getfullyear.com

Anyway there’s a simple way to fix the yearly date update dance forever in Sitely, through the use of Smart Fields:

  • edit the text where you have the year
  • select the year itself
  • click the “Insert Smart Field…” in the settings in the inspector on the right
  • select the Date/Time
  • configure it to only show the current year, like this:

CleanShot-2025-01-06-at-10.19.17

(the page load time vs. continuous setting is only useful for a time you want to update on the page, which for the year is unlikely to help)

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Off topic.
Does that date need to be updated every year? It seems to me that whatever year I did it should stay that year.

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No. It is indeed smart.
I’d say the date is taken from The web server.

Mr. F.

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I truely love this feature! :slight_smile:
I have this implemented on all my created Sitely websites and it works faultlessly! :man_dancing:

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Personally, I opted for a small PHP code on my sites, naively hoping that Google would see it as a site update. But I think Google is much smarter than that :joy:

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He’s saying that the date shouldn’t be updated as the design was made that year.